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Re: [ANN] Pharo 7.0.3

Posted by ducasse on Apr 19, 2019; 11:57am
URL: https://forum.world.st/ANN-Pharo-7-0-3-tp5098224p5098441.html

Our plan is to use Pango directly or indirectly (I do not remember exactly but via SDL2).

But as everything it takes time. First the VM should get headless and more.

Now if we would have some other sources of fundings Pharo would not be like it is now.

Stef

On 19 Apr 2019, at 12:48, [hidden email] wrote:

Question: Can't we use some platform facility for renderering text on a surface instead of using FreeType?

e.g. Windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/direct2d/direct2d-and-directwrite

Phil

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On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 12:12 PM Tim Mackinnon <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 17 Apr 2019, at 23:43, Denis Kudriashov <[hidden email]> wrote:

Somebody should just decide that new version needs to be to back ported.

Who is the somebody that would decide? If we have to live with Pharo 7.x for the next year (possibly a bit less) - some of the UI fixes would be much appreciated, particularly if its easy to do.

Perhaps if we do a 7.0.4 we might do that?

Tim

p.s. 7.0.3 definitely doesn’t fix the font glitch (sadly), and Guille’s fix cause my image to deadlock for 3-5 minutes when I see it (which might actually be helpful - is it could conform a specific type of problem)